Improvement in parlor-stoves



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' The grate is made in sections@1 e1 e2.

PATENT Grrrcn.

EDWARD BROWN, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN PARLOR-STOVES. f

Spcciiication forming part of Letters Patent No. 129,711, dated July 23, 1872.

Specification describing certain Improvements'in Parlor-Stoves, invented by EDWARD BROWN, 311 Walnut street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.`

This invention, an improvement on my patent of March 5, 1872, relates to the construction of the grate and the arrangement of a feeding-reservoir, the `devices .being designed especially for open gratcs or open-grate stoves. Open grates, as now constructed, have no convenient arrangement for cleaning the grate of ashes without the dust passing into the room, spoiling the furniture and injuring the sale of the stoves for parlor use. My improvement consists in inclosing the front of the grate or stove below the front fire-bars, and in making 'a grate vibrating in sections, so that any portion of the grate may be shaken by itself and theashes liberated from the center of the fire l as well as at the sides. The coal is fed to the re upon an inclined plate, down which it slides and falls" upon the re at the rear.

Referring to the drawing making part of this specification, Figure 1 is a section through the stove.` Fig. 2 is a front view, Fig. 3 shows the front of the hre-pot with the grate in sec- Fig. 4 is a view of the inclined chute or plate. Fig. 5 is a plan of the grate. Fig. 6 is `a cross-section through the friction-bearing of the door.

A is the stove-casing, of sheet-iron; B, the stove-pipe; b', the damper. G is the fire-pot, of ironor hre-brick, with front bars D of iron.

p The sections el are placed far enough below the irepot to permit the ashes to fall over the side of the grate between it and the fire-pot. The

space left between these two sections at the the center of the iirejs covered by a stationary or vibrating grate, e, which is raised a little above the other sections. Both this center grate and the outside ones el e1 are pivoted centrally by the pins g upon the pivot-bar G. `Each section has a separate handle, h h1 h2, passingthrough slots in the front plate K, so that each section "can be vibrated independently of the other,`although, from the position `of the center one, its motion is more limited than that of the others. Open-grate res are generally larger in area -and shallower than lires inclosed in cylinder-stoves; consequently tion at the extreme ends and very little at the i center. Any number of these sections are used, according to the length of the grate. By my improvement this dihculty is obviated, and the ashes freed from the center as well as at the ends. On vibrating either of the end sections the ashes will fall over the outside edges and through the central opening into the ash-.pan H. This pan is drawn out through the open doors M, in which are sliding registers m for admitting air to the grate. N are doors having mica windows nl in them, so that the' fire can be seen upon the grate. They are hinged` at the lower edge at n, so as to open for the purpose of inserting a poker above the grate. P is the door of the stove, hinged at the top edge by apivot at each side. A handle, p1, movesthe door into any position required. The cap p2 isu cored out so as to hold a packing of a'sbestus at`p3, (see Fig. 6,) which, when tightened upon the pivot of the door by the n'ut p4, gives sufcient friction to keep the door in any position in which it may be placed-either perpendicular, as a blower, or outward, as at. the dotted lines Q. This door has also mica windows in it, so that the lire may be seen in whatever position it may be. Above the door P is an inclined chute, R. lts upper edge is secured to the stove just below the door S; its lower edge terminates at the top of the re at such an inclination that the coals will only. just slide down the plate and be deposited upon the su'rface of the fire. The bottom of the plate is rather wider than the top, leaving a passage for the air above the fire at each side at W. The edges of the chute are slightly curved up, as shown at Fig. 4, to prevent the coals sliding oft' the side. This chute is only intended for use in this stove when it is to be left for a long time unattended. Usually the coals are put on under the door P. When the grate is shaken the door P is placed perpendicular, and at night, when no draught is required, it is placed as at Q. This construction of grate, inclosed at the front, in combination with the inclined door l? and inclined reservoir-plate R, gives facilities for managing an open-gratere heretofore unattained.

When my invention is applied to low-down grates close to the floor of a parlor the pan H and door M are dispensed with, and the ashes fall at once into the cellar.

I claim- 1. The grate, constructed of the centrallypivoted sections e1 el, in combination with the stationary or vibrating plate e2, so arranged as to cover the interstice between the two sections, as and for the purpose described.

2. The inclined plate or chute R connecting the door S with the top of the fire, and so constructed that the air can pass over the fire on ech side of the chute, substantially as herein s own.

scribed.

EDWD. BROWN.

Witnesses:

PARK MCFARDAND, J r., JOHN F. GRANT. 

